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SAN JOSE, California, August 29 /PRNewswire/ --

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  ((c) Games-Services - Julien Mougnon / Fabien Hebert)
  - TV Highlights of the Electronic Sports World Cup:
  ftp://files.eswc.com/press/tv/ESWC2008_Videos/

Following three days of competition bringing together the 600 best players on the planet, six world champion titles and $US 200,000 in prize money were awarded in San Jose, California, which hosted the Electronic Sports World Cup Final. Played in front of the public on the large stage of the San Jose Convention Center, broadcast on giant screens and with commentary by electronic sports specialists, the final matches included many of the 40 nations represented. Poland and the United States won two consecutive titles for the first time in the history of the ESWC: for the second consecutive year PGS-Gaming of Poland won the title for the Counter-Strike tournament and SK-Gaming of the United States held onto their title in the Women's Counter-Strike tournament.

Along with other games, the Koreans and the Chinese bagged the first four spots in the Warcraft 3 competition; the Quake 3 tournament was dominated by Belarussian gamer Alexei Yanushevsky and in the Trackmania Nations tournament Swedish gamer Kalle Videkull and Dutch gamer Freek Mollema secured the highest places on the podium. During its first appearance in the competition as an official sport, DOTA allowed the Singaporean team Zenith to leave California basking in the glow of a world champion title.

  List of Winners of the 2008 ESWC:

  COUNTER-STRIKE

  1 PGS GAMING (Poland)
  2 ESTRO (South Korea)
  3 FNATIC (Sweden)

  QUAKE 3

  1 CYPHER (Belarus)
  2 K1LLSEN (Germany)
  3 RAPHA (United States)

  WARCRAFT 3

  1 MTWAMD.WHO (South Korea)
  2 WE.SKY (China)
  3 TED (China)

  TRACKMANIA

  1 FROSTBEULE (Sweden)
  2 XENOGEAR (Netherlands)
  3 LIGN (France)

  DOTA

  1 ZENITH (Singapore)
  2 KINGSURF (Malaysia)
  3 MEETYOURMAKERS (Denmark)

  COUNTER-STRIKE WOMEN

  1 SK GAMING (United States)
  2 EMULATE (France)
  3 EHONOR (China)


  ESWC's official website: http://www.eswc.com/

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